Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-23
A TEXAS SCREED
Against ''socIal Equality" In the Presiden
tial Mansion.

Moody Monitor.
The following Is what late Press dis
patch had to say in regard to social equal
ity at the White House:
"The Presidents reception to the dip
lomatic corps was brilliant. Those pres
ent were; The President and Mrs. Carter,
the Hsytien Minister and Mrs. Cleveland,
the Argentine Minister and Mrs. Gatia,
the Portuguese Minister and Mrs. Folsom,
etc"
Ye gods Is not this enough to make
George Washington and Andrew Jackson
turn in their collins and groan? The
wife of one of their Democratic success
sors carried out to dinner on the arm of 8
coal-black negro in the White Honse, too
Hayti is negro republic, and its minis
ter is as black as Erebus or the ace of
spades. When Grant admitted Fred
| Douglas to his table, a social row was
raised, but he was Republican President,
of whom nothing better could have been
expected; besides, Fred Douglas had made
himself respected ty his talents, and was
an octnroon. But Mrs. Cleveland, wife
of O Democratic President, by her hus-
! bands order or consent, prOmenades in
public on the arm of negro, and nothing
is said about it, What would a southern
gentleman have done had he Glanced to
have been present at this dinner? In the
long list of guests we do not recognize 3
single southern man or woman. Mr..
Lamar, member of the cabinet, is con-
spicuously absent. Not so the Secretary
of State, T. F. Bayard.
We think an American negro better by
odds than a Voodoo-worshIpiug black
from Havti; and if Cleveland wished to
iuaugurate social equality, ne should have
begun at home. Matthews, the negro
whom he has so persistently forced upon
the Republican Senate for Registrar OF
the District Of Columbia, and whom they
as often rejected, is a respectable darkey,
and would have made better subject to
begin with.
There is no use trying to disguise the
fact farther: The raoid abolitionis;s OF
the north, the bankers and synditates,
the "bloated bondhOlders' of the eastern
cities have the very sort of man they want
in the presidential chair. Republican
officials still hold their places and defy
him to turn them out without violating
his own civil service rules. He is tool
and representative of the rich, and
knows nothing or cares nothing
about the needs of the poor. He
opposes the circulation of silver, the is
sue of greenbacks, and reform of the
tariff. Why do the Democrats in Con-
gress lend Cleveland a hollow, half.
hearted support?
/. Because they think it necessary t.
hold the party together.
.. They neither like him nor his meth,
DDS.
But there is a stronger reason with the
congressman still. Each one perhaps
has gotten some appointment from Cleve,
land for friend, or is trying to do So
Therefore they do not wish to antagon-
ize him personally. But it is clear to
most of tAem what Henry Watterson says
openly: "That Cleveland is fast wreck,
ing the Democratic party, and that the
only chance for the Democracy is to
leave him to founder along as best he
may, to disavow him and his acts"
Cleveland wants another term, and is
bidding for southern support, but if he
wished to ALLEVIATE his few southern
friends, he could not have chosen q better
plan than the touch of social equality
contained in the extract we give above
Mrs. Cleveland may dine or associate
with whom she pleases, but Mrs. Cleve'
lands husband is not the man for the
south to support in national conven
ton.